Overview

• The Union Home Affairs Ministry has approved in principle the creation of 20 new CRPF battalions, adding 20,000 personnel to the force.
• The Union Finance Ministry has already cleared the proposal and the file is awaiting final Union Cabinet approval.
• The newly authorized units will be specially trained for deployments in Jammu and Kashmir’s challenging forested and insurgent-prone terrain.
• The expansion plan was fast-tracked in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack and the subsequent Operation Sindoor.
• As Left-Wing Extremism declines, authorities are reallocating CRPF resources from Naxal-affected districts toward cross-border and internal counterterror operations.